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At press conferences both before and after the Demo-1 launch of the SpaceX Crew Dragon, NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine was asked about progress on NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) and the planned mission of the Orion crew capsule. At the time, he...
by Mark Sumner
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House committees don’t include just representatives; they also have staffs, and Democrat Adam Schiff just made a major upgrade to the staff of the House Intelligence Committee by adding an experienced prosecutor. Who made his name going after Russian...
by Mark Sumner
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Trump’s formula for his unfortunate electoral victory in 2016 relied heavily on persuading voters in the so-called “heartland” that their economic decline was due not to any fault of corporate, late-stage capitalism, but that their jobs were being...
by Dartagnan
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It seems like a lifetime ago that I was in the service. Looking back, I can say I joined for myriad reasons: to escape an alcoholic household; to pay for college; out of a sense of duty and ...
by Mark E Andersen
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In one extraordinary hour on Tuesday afternoon, a federal jury convicted Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, on eight counts of tax fraud and bank fraud while, at the very same time, Trump’s longtime personal attorney, Michael...
by David Nir
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Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, makes crystal clear what the Republicans' ultimate agenda is. They'll put up with anything and everything from the occupier of the Oval Office to the end of remaking the entire...
by Joan McCarter
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From CNN:
The special counsel's office wants two more months before it looks toward sentencing former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who has pleaded guilty to lying to investigators and is cooperating in the Russia probe.
"Due...
by ericlewis0
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Some members of the “both sides” media are quite flustered today. They don’t know quite what to make of what they saw at the White House Correspondents’ dinner last night.
The WHCD is classically viewed as an opportunity for politicians (notably the...
by Dartagnan
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Joy Reid doesn’t remember writing those blog posts.
She. Doesn’t. Remember. Writing. Them.
But she does remember other things. Things MANY progressives have said. The difference is that she has cut her heart out to apologize for them.
That...
by ExpatGirl
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Instead of being at the evidentiary hearing Friday in New York, Michael Cohen was meeting with cigar-smoking acquaintances outside The Regency, a NYC hotel. One person at the meeting was identified as Rotem Rosen. Mr. Rosen was the right hand man of...
by Thomas Hailey Kloecker
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